Carmel Balderas De Castillo And Sandra Guadalupe Chapa

The women represented in this essay may come from similar backgrounds, but have both grown to become drastically different human beings. One in a desperate attempt to keep the peace in her marriage and keep her family together, has given up nearly every form of freedom she has the right to have as a human being. The other, however, lives independently and freely, having given working hard to achieve her goals a chance.
Carmel Balderas de Castillo and Sandra Guadalupe Chapa (now “Wright”) both grew up in the country of Mexico. During childhood, Carmel grew up without a mother figure, leaving only her dad to support the family in any way he could. When Carmel finished primary school at the age of twelve, her father found that he could no longer pay for her education. Where Carmel’s future began to shift into something unfulfilling, Sandra

This would happen to Sandra, too, but that was years later. While Carmel gave up on continuing her education and became a mother and wife, Sandra’s father pushed her to pursue her education and become a nurse. These decisions set them on completely different paths, though not immediately.
Also coming from a heritage that encourages women to marry a man at a young age and have his children, giving up the rest of their lives and most likely their independency, Sandra did no marry too long afterwards.
Years after Carmel gave birth to her first child, Sandra, now a nurse, met Juan Antonio Valdes whilst taking care of his injuries from a drunken brawl. It wasn’t love at first sight, nor was it love at all, but eventually Juan took Sandra to the United States and married her when she became pregnant with their first of three children. Now, Carmel and Sandra were living the same exact life. It was their job to stay at home and tend to the house and the kids and the husband that didn’t respect their wishes to work for a